Ezekiel 29:1-5

New Living Translation

A Message for Egypt

29 On January 7,^[a] during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord: ²“Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt. ³Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord:

“I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—
    you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile.
For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine;
    I made it for myself.’
⁴I will put hooks in your jaws
    and drag you out on the land
    with fish sticking to your scales.
⁵I will leave you and all your fish
    stranded in the wilderness to die.
You will lie unburied on the open ground,
    for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.

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Footnotes

29:1 Hebrew On the twelfth day of the tenth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on January 7, 587 B.c.; also see note on 1:1.